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October 24, 2007

WS 1: Red Sox 13, Rockies 1

Rockies - 010 000 000 - 1 6 0Red Sox - 310 270 00x - 13 17 0

Josh Beckett was the shit yet again (7-6-1-1-9, 93). Dustin Pedroia hit a home run to start the first inning -- the first rookie in World Series history to do so -- and J.D. Drew added a two-run double to give boston a quick 3-0 lead.

Beckett relied almost exclusively on his fastball for the first four innings -- 39 of his first 40 pitches were heat ranging from 95 to 97. He had excellent control. He set up Todd Helton with a 12/6 curve for strike two in the second inning before getting him swinging at a fastball -- and his 0-2 off-speed pitch to Matt Holliday in the fourth was tapped to third.

Nine consecutive Red Sox batters reached base with two outs in the fifth -- three doubles, two singles and four walks, including three straight bases-loaded walks -- that pushed the lead from 6-1 to 13-1.

So ... Boston's last four games: 7-1, 12-2, 11-2, 13-1. Four wins by a combined score of 43-6!

And:

1st team in postseason history to score more than 10 runs in three straight games

"the Red Sox are perhaps the strongest Secret Sauce team since divisional play began, excelling in each of that metric's three categories: defense (FRAA), closer effectiveness (WXRL), and power pitching (EqK9)".

Definitely picking up a nipper of JD (and some more High Lifes ...) before this game. See y'all later, unless I get waylaid by Sox fans who bump into my one-man pregame at the hotel bar (which isn't likely) ...

Thank God ... that video is priceless and makes me miss Bob Lobel ... I'm glad that he ultimately gave them the benefit of the doubt, as I can picture their story (however questionable it may be) happening to me in college, and the important thing is that Jeemer et al have their mascot back.

Going to be in the Bar tonight again, so I'll be sending my comments via Psychic Wireless (hope you can read them).

If you look at the Colorado lineup, it's at least somewhat dangerous from top to bottom. Very solid. Then again, Beckett is more than solid. And then again again...I like our lineup as well. And I don't think Francis can really be ready for what he's going to face there. Shades of Maximus and "Unleash hell" come to mind.

I am getting butterflies earlier and worse than for Game 7. It was rather chilling in Stark's "Why the Rockies Will Win" on ESPN to read that the Sox must win Game 1 to win the series. I know it's not true per se, but it makes sense. I am getting a little spooked by all this talk of how difficult Coors Field will be for us. It must be overblown.

Good evening. I am ready to go! Excited, but not nervous. Harvey saw someone today with six tickets to each game at Fenway. Why didn't he offer to BUY two for us?? Oh, well, I will tell myself it is better to watch at home and blog than to be at Fenway. Not that I will believe what I say.

Oh, I agree, but one of the better bats has to sit in Colorado. Unless, Yerry wants to be creative like the WEEI callers want him to be.

Scenario 1 - Move Youkilis to RF (a lot of people wanted this).Scenario 2 - Move Youkilis to 2nd and Pedroia to SS (almost as many wanted this)Scenario 3 - Youk to Third, Lowell to 2b and Pedroia to SS (Yerry laughed at this one during his WEEI interview today).

Got a nice bottle of wine for in-game, and goin' to cook my meal right now.

Will check in once the game starts and I eat!

Funny thing at the liquor store, I was buying a bottle of champagne to replenish the one I drank after game 5, wearing my Red Sox jersey - the clerk was like "aren't you a little bit early? the series is just startin tonight!" what ensued was a nice discussion about how he wants the red sox to take it, but hopes Jeff Francis does well tonight since he used to play with Francis before he made it big...Imagine that, teammates - a few years later, one is pitching game 1 of the world series, the other is working the register at a liquor store so schmucks like me can get our fill!

"Days like today are why 2004 was so important. I no longer worry about dying without having seen the Sox win it all at least once. I've seen it, I bought the DVD and it'll live forever. Here they are in another World Series, and I'm going to enjoy watching it a lot more than I did in 2004. If the Rockies keep rolling and win, I'll be disappointed but not devastated. For the next week, I'm just going to enjoy watching my favorite team play another really good team for the championship of Major League Baseball. I'll cheer every clutch hit, defensive gem and 1-2-3 inning the Sox achieve. But I won't feel a single pang of fear every time someone makes an error, or the bullpen puts the tying run on first base with a four pitch walk.

"The Red Sox won it all in 2004, and no matter what happens over the next seven games the 2007 Red Sox have had a great season full of terrific moments. The collective psyche of the nation no longer requires that they win.

I am much more nervous than 2004, at least at the moment, because there was so little doubt in my mind. Although I probably have been listening to the other side a bit too much.

Anyway, send me some of your calm, Laura. I need it.

Amy, there are several of us in California, but I'm in San Francisco, along with sanfranciscoredsoxfan (though I'm betting you could figure that one out.) I don't know of anyone who's down there in San Diego and L.A. counties and is directly affected by the fires, but I'm thinking about those folks for sure.

thatdietcokegirl, I don't know of a direct feed from their site, but I believe that you can buy a cheap MLB Radio/TV package that would let you get WEEI on it ... not that that's exactly what you were hoping for, I realize ...

i'm leaving work now, and get to listen to Joe Castiglione on the XM feed in my car. Tempted to sit in my driveway and listen to entire game that way. Next year I get a portable XM receiver. That's what I want for Hanukkah this year!

thx guys, i'm trying the feed from weei.com now. i just thought it was usually blacked out. wrko has some dipshit show on it right now called 'savage nation' (at least on the real radio) stupid guy didn't know what paganism was (die, bitch) so i don't know what it's like on the online feed. if not i'll go mlb because...i have to listen to the radio. kinda just. have to ;)

It is the very same ... Star Wars, a slew of other movies, the American theme to the Olympics, and just about every other well-known modern epic. He borrows heavily from "classic" classical composers, and a lot of "real musicians" think he's sort of a populist hack, but I must confess to liking a lot of his movie-score marches.

Also, a correction on myself: that was the real BSO he was conducting, the high school folks were just the standard bearers.

So I guess I am also wrong on the EEI/RKO question also. I am batting .333 so far (I think I am right about John Williams scoring ET, Star Wars, etc.) In baseball that would be a great batting average. Not so much in the real world.

Michael Savage kicks ass. Also love the National Anthem and the sound of the fighter jets as they scream across Tampa Bay from MacDill AFB right over my house. I know I'm in the minority here, but anything for the Red Sox so it's all good.